Before Snowden perhaps we might have had "chatter" on cell phones indicating whether this event was committed by terrorists, evil cretins or fools?
To: Seizethecarp
Bet right after that little POS bounced off the hull the airframe asked: “What the hell was THAT, a mosquito?” Good thing it didn’t get et by an engine, though...
2 posted on
04/17/2016 6:49:59 PM PDT by
W.
(Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
To: Seizethecarp
I saw on the news on one of those rare times I actually watch it, that there have been a lot of close misses in the U.S.
3 posted on
04/17/2016 6:52:31 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Seizethecarp
I believe they mean it collided with a drone.
4 posted on
04/17/2016 6:59:27 PM PDT by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: Seizethecarp
One of these days some terrorist will send up a dozen with his buddies to deliberately fly into the engines as the planes take off.
7 posted on
04/17/2016 7:09:37 PM PDT by
Daniel Ramsey
(Donald Trump has all the right enemies while Lyin Ted has all the wrong friends!)
To: Seizethecarp
This AM FOX News says this is the first time a drone has struck an airliner “anywhere”.
Practice?
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